I hope he wasn’t looking for me to reimburse him. 38 and I went and shot the TV!” That was the funniest thing that happened.
Man, it really affected me… I was halfway through it and I went and got my. He said, “Hey, man, I watched that ‘Roots’ on TV last night, man. He said, “Man, pull over!” So I pulled the car over. John Amos (Kunta Kinte as an adult): I was on the freeway and this big brother pulls up next to me in this piece of ancient Detroit steel. What are your memories from the week it aired? I can’t look at any of those brutal scenes. Sandy Duncan (Missy Anne Reynolds): Absolutely. We had a lot of white actors that were greatly affected as well. He was just broken up at the thought of having to go through that. I’d come home and I’d have so much rage.īrown: There’s a scene where I get whipped and Lloyd Bridges had to do it. Later on, I started finding out that the plantation owner had 10 children by her mother… And, I finally understood why my grandmother didn’t talk about her life growing up. I could never figure out how she could be my grandmother. Moody: Because of “Roots,” I was able to embrace where I came from and know that the languages that were spoken in Africa were comparable to any European culture or language, which was robbed from my youth, because they taught black history in a paragraph. The cast of the original “Roots” chats about their experiences on the show, and Lynne Moody talks about being educated through the show.
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